Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

From	"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things
Date	2021-12-16 20:50 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> I'd posted about my update a while back,  and while some folks were 
> encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current version,  
> my thinking has been to see how things are working,  what's changed,  
> what broke,  etc. and deal with all of that before I continue on in the 
> update process.
> 
> Some of the things I'm dealing with are:
> 
> 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar.  
> Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit",  which I would do,  
> and then within a few seconds it would come right back again!  I finally 
> tracked this down to being "KDEaccessible",  which I've done nothing to 
> invoke and don't know why the upgrade put that in there.  I solved the 
> problem by using synaptic to uninstall the package,  since I have no use 
> for it.
> 

This one is solved for the moment, then.

> 2. My virtual (older) Slackware virtualbox install is seeing a few issues.
> One of them is that there is apparently a screensaver kicking in after 
> some extended period of time.  I can't find any place where this is 
> enabled,  to turn it off.  I wasn't using one before and don't want one 
> now.  Suggestions?
> 

XFCE desktop: if this is blanking the screen, try checking for power settings.
If it's an _actual_ screensaver with patterns - check to see what screen
saving/locking programs come by default.

> 3. Also under the Slackware virtualbox sound has quit working.  
> When I boot it,  I get a message that says "Host audio backend (PulseAudio) 
> initialization has failed. Selecting the NULL audio backend with the 
> consequence that no sound is audible."  I'm not sure what changed here 
> either.  On the host (Debian) side,  audio works fine for,  ferinstance,  
> playing a youtube video.  But for some things I want to be able to play 
> audio under Slackware as well.  I found an item in the Xfce applications 
> menu under Multimedia that says "Pulseaudio Volume Control" and when I 
> hit that I get a smallish popup window with no apparent content other 
> than "Establishing connection to PulseAudio, please wait..." and then 
> nothing happens for a good long while now.  Suggestions?
> 

How old id the virtualbox version - is there an option for audio passthrough
or similar?

> 4. There is *something* kicking off around midnight local time that 
> produces a whole lot of disk activity for a few minutes,  slowing down 
> whatever else I might be doing at the time.  I've looked at various things 
> like cron, at,  etc. to see if I can find something in there but no luck
>  so far.  Suggestions?
> 

Run top / ps -elf | less to see what processes are running and check 
what seems to be eating memory or disk?

> There's probably more,  but I would like to get these things ironed out 
> before I go chasing any more stuff,  and before I continue on the upgrade
>  path...
> 

Hi Roy,

I would seriously suggest upgrading from 9 to at least 10. You might sort 
out some of the issues but, more importantly, will be moving up to a
better supported system

With every good wish, as ever,

Andy Cater

> 
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> ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
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Thread

8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-16 20:40 +0100
  Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-12-16 20:50 +0100
    Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-16 23:00 +0100
      Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-12-17 00:20 +0100
        Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-17 01:50 +0100
          Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-17 04:50 +0100
      Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-17 18:00 +0100
        Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-12-18 14:50 +0100
          Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-12-18 15:50 +0100
        Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-18 17:30 +0100
          Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-19 09:20 +0100
            Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-19 19:30 +0100
              Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-12-20 00:10 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-20 16:10 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-22 17:10 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-12-22 17:40 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-24 18:40 +0100
          Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 04:00 +0100
            Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-03 20:10 +0100
              Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-11 13:20 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-11 14:20 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 17:10 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-11 17:30 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 18:30 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-11 18:50 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 19:10 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-11 17:30 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 18:50 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-11 19:40 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2022-01-12 03:30 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-11 21:10 +0100
                Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 22:40 +0100

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